On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:17:45 +0000, john gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>For those of you who read German readily, there is a new book: > > > >Siegele, Ludwig, & Joseph Zepelin. Matrix der Welt. SAP und der neue globale Kapitalizmus. Frankfurt und New York: Campus-Verlag, 2009. > > >available that describes---publicly and in very much greater detail than I have seen anywhere else---the uses that some multinationals are making of SAP, chiefly and crucially on mainframes, to integrate and "optimize" their operations across national boundaries. > -----------snip---------------------------- Funnily enought AGCO Corporation (http://www.agcocorp.com/) started their SAP project about the same time they moved their European HQ from the UK to a European Principal Company (EPC) based in Switzerland, explicitly for tax purposes. EPC's are common amongst multinationals such as General Motors, Deere & Co. etc.. That their CEO is a German probably has nothing to do with it. Dave the Lurker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
